2 on Tuesday

I really love participating in Andrea's 2 for Tuesdays posts! This week we're talking about Christmas traditions. I've been blogging since 2006, so it seems I've written on this topic several times over the years. Sometime I think that's why I don't  blog as much anymore because I feel like I say the same things year after year!!

When it comes to traditions I like what I said about it last year.   When thinking about which 2 Christmas traditions to share today I realized I kind of put traditions into categories. Traditions I did as a kid, new ones I have started with my hubby and ones I hope to create one day when I have a child of my own. 

So these the two I've decided to share today AND I don't think I've written about them before!!

1) Every Christmas I give my nephews a Christmas ornament, that I some how personalize with their name and date. It started when Tyler (who is now 13!) was just a baby. I remember putting up my little Christmas tree in my apartment that year and realizing most of the ornaments were given to me when I was a little girl and several of them were from my aunts. It was then that I fell in love with idea and it's something I've bought them EVERY years since they were born.  I always try to find them boyish ones that somehow relate to whatever they are into (like this one pictured here.) I sure hope one day when they have a tree of their own they enjoy going through the years worth of ornaments and know just how much their Aunt Jennifer LOVES them!!

2) Eating TAMALES!! This time of year we always enjoy eating tamales!! One good thing about living in West Texas is there are lots of great places that sell them! The best tamales though are the homemade ones my hubby's family makes every year to eat on Christmas Eve!! I am looking forward to being home this year and being able to eat yummy tamales on the 24th!